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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 August 1917, Page 4

An advertiser has two comfortable bedrooms, centraly situated, to let.

A record auction was held in Masterton on Saturday last, when a cake realised £235. The proceeds go to the Aotea Home, Egypt.

A parcel containing papers and an axe head have been found on the Winiata Road. The owner can regain possession on applying to Capt. Kemp, Salvation Army.

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. W. Russell) has “turned down” a proposal that Boy Scouts should be used as rangers in connection with fishing and shooting licenses.

Miss Kathleen Blomfield, in response to requests, has decided to -Op'Sh a school of danciag in Taihape, and in this issue notifies the public that a commencement will be made in St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, on Saturday next, 25th August.

Since the commencement of the war the Manaivatu Racing Club has given the sum of £7390 in donations for patriotic purposes. In the first year of the war the sum of £250 was given; in 1916 £3650, including £IOOO for repairs and maintenance ot course owing to occupancy as a military camp, for which no charge was made; and to June this year £2840.

Thousands of business and professional men in England who have enlisted and gone to the Avar have entrusted their banking accounts and cheque books to their wives. While the husband is with the army it devolves upon the wife to manage and settle everything —rent, rates, education, wages, household and other bills. She has also to receive the husband’s income and to pay it into the bank. Women are very methodical in their banking. The customers pay in promptly and are more attentive to their bankboons than many men. . It is very seldom that women incur overdrafts.

Le Liberia of Trent (Italy) declares

categorically that in Austria, as well as in Germany, there exists factories for the treatment of -human corpses, from which fats "are/extracted for military purposes, and even for use as food (says Central News). The paper states that one of these factories is situated noffar from the Italian front and the assiduity of the Austrians in. collecting dead bodies in the sectors nearest this factory has _ been often noticed. They never miss an opportunity of collecting Italian bodies, the latter as a rule being much fatter than the Austrians.

The inhabitants of St. Quentin, who were expelled by the Germans, are arriving in Paris, having travelled by way of Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Late arrivals say that the town was finally evacuated by the civilian population on March IS, after a long period, during which they suffered lach: of food. Supplies from the relief commission had been entirely suspended for that region and other parts of Northern France, and the refugees subsisted during their passage into Belgium and Germany on soup from dandelions and nettles. Don't miss seeing the Stocktaking Throw-out Bargains at Collinson and Gifford Ltd. (see windows).

The Health Inspector has informed the Wellington Hospital Board that 83 cases of diptheria were notified during the past four weeks, 51 being from the Wellington City area. The special ward at the hospital was so full at one time that they had to place two patients in one bed. Tht Hospital Board discussed the problem of the control of contacts, regarding this at present as too lax, but so full of difficulties that nothing seemed possible to be done, beyoud enforcing as far as practicable the precautionary regulations already in operation.

The proceeds from the football match, Raetihi versus Taihape, on Saturday next, will be devoted to the New Zealand Nurses’ Fund, donations for which are being collected by Mrs Dr. B'oyd. In connection with this match, it may be stated that all the expenses of the Raetihi team, £l2, are being paid for by the Taihape footballers out of their own pocket. Such being the case it is hoped the pubic will show appreciation of their action by attending the match in force on Saturday, and help the Nurses’ Fund along.

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